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HASAKAH, North and East Syria — The Armenian Orthodox St. John the Baptist Church hosted a ceremony commemorating the 110th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide under the patronage of Archbishop of Aleppo Magar Ashkarian. The event was presided over by Archbishop Vicar Archimandrite Levon Yeghiaian. Held at the Armenian Orthodox…

ÖREBRO, Sweden — On Saturday, the Syriac Association in Örebro organized a seminar commemorating the Sayfo Genocide, the mass atrocities committed by the Ottoman Empire and allied Kurdish tribes during World War I against the Syriac (Aramean–Assyrian–Chaldean), Armenian, and Greek communities. The event focused on urging the Swedish government to…

ENSCHEDE, Netherlands — It has always been a great desire for the Syriac community in the Netherlands to have a public monument at the site where the Sayfo Commemoration is now being held, annually on June 15, in the centrally located Volkspark in Enschede. However, a Dutch court has now…

STOCKHOLM — Aday Bethkinne, a Syriac politician from Sweden’s Christian Democrats (Kristdemokraterna, KD), has called on Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson and the governing coalition to officially recognize the 1915 Sayfo Genocide committed by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian, Syriac (Aramean–Assyrian–Chaldean), and Greek peoples. In a detailed letter, Bethkinne expressed…

ANKARA — In a powerful address to Turkey’s Parliament, George Aslan, a Syriac MP from the Peoples’ Equality and Democratic Party (Halkların Eşitlik ve Demokrasi Partisi, DEM Party), posed a poignant and provocative question: “What happened to the three million Christians who lived in Turkey in 1915?” Aslan highlighted the…

BETH NAHRIN — World leaders, including Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and French President Emmanuel Macron, marked the 110th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire in 1915. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, in a heartfelt message,…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — US President Donald Trump released a statement on Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, referring to the events of 1915 as one of the most egregious atrocities of the 20th century. While expressing solidarity with the Armenian community globally, Trump avoided explicitly labeling the massacres as genocide, drawing sharp…

ANKAWA, Iraq – On the 110th anniversary of the Sayfo Genocide, the Athra Alliance in Iraq issued a public statement on what the four member parties call “one of the most horrific genocides in modern history”. In it, the Alliance renewed its call for Turkey and the international community to…

STOCKHOLM — Syriac MP in Sweden Yusuf Aydin (Kristdemokraterna, KD) renewed his call for Sweden to officially recognize the Sayfo massacres as genocide. In a statement on his official page, Aydin emphasized the need for acknowledgment, urging Sweden to follow the example of other European nations. Aydin highlighted the atrocities…

BRUSSELS — On the 110th anniversary of the 1915 Sayfo Genocide, the European Syriac Union (ESU) released a heartfelt statement commemorating the victims of the countless massacres committed by the Ottoman Empire. The ESU called for official recognition of the genocide by Turkey and the international community, asserting that acknowledging…